100 inspirational quotes about wealth

Are you looking for inspiration about being wealthy?

Here are 100 quotes about wealth from a range of famous people, including writers, philosophers, politicians, and business figures:

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” — Epictetus
“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” — Unknown
“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” — P.T. Barnum
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” — Erich Fromm
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.” — William R. Alger
“Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.” — Epicurus
“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.” — Plato
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.” — Ronald Reagan
“Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.” — Chris Rock
“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.” — John D. Rockefeller
“The first wealth is health.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.” — Warren Buffett
“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” — Jonathan Swift
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.” — P.T Barnum
“To be rich is not what you have in your bank account, but what you have in your heart.” — Unknown
“Success is not just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.” — Unknown
“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.” — Christopher Rice
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?” — John D. Rockefeller
“It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” — Robert Kiyosaki
“When I had money everyone called me brother.” — Polish proverb
“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” — Margaret Bonnano
“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” — Pablo Picasso
“Money is a great servant but a bad master.” — Francis Bacon
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.” — Coco Chanel
“The lack of money is the root of all evil.” — Mark Twain
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” — Zig Ziglar
“Do not be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” — Charles Richards
“The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.” — Anonymous
“It is better to live rich than to die rich.” — Samuel Johnson
“Patience is the key to wealth.” — African Proverb
“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” — Henry Ford
“Money is a mechanism for control.” — David Korten
“Money often costs too much.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.” — Kin Hubbard
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” — John Locke
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” — Albert Einstein
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” — Will Rogers
“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” — Yogi Berra
“The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.” — Proverb
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” — Jim Rohn
“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.” — Bob Marley
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.” — Barack Obama
“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” — Ayn Rand
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” — Plato
“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.” — Proverb
“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” — Henry Ford
“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” — Nelson Mandela
“I am not impressed by money, social status or job title. I’m impressed by the way someone treats other human beings.” — Unknown
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The real measure of wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” — Unknown
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” — Jim Rohn
“Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.” — Robert Heinlein
“I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.” — Marilyn Monroe
“The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.” — Coco Chanel
“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” — George Lorimer
“Money can feed the body. Education feeds the mind.” — Christine Gregoire
“Money is the wise man’s religion.” — Euripides
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.” — Benjamin Franklin
“There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.” — Calvin Coolidge
“Wealth often distracts us with foolish pleasures.” — Seneca
“Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.” — Barack Obama
“Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more.” — Jack Benny
“Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.” — Benjamin Franklin
“A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world.” — Muhammad
“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” — Benjamin Franklin
“It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.” — Lucretius
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” — Benjamin Franklin
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.” — H. L. Mencken
“He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” — Voltaire
“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.” — Seneca
“Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” — Joe Biden
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.” — Haruki Murakami
“The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” — Marcus Aurelius
“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.” — Ayn Rand
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” — Edmund Burke
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” — Aristotle
“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” — Warren Buffett
“If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.” — Vicki Robin
“Never spend your money before you have earned it.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.” — Evan Esar
“When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.” — Russian Proverb
“The art is not making money, but keeping it.” — Proverb
“A good reputation is more valuable than money.” — Publilius Syrus
“It’s easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.” — Craig Ferguson
“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.” — J. Paul Getty
“The lack of money is the root of all evil.” — Mark Twain
“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life.” — Charles M. Schwab
“Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.” — Warren Buffett
“Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.” — Richard Ney
“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” — Bo Derek